Welcome! This year I’m creating a set of posts/blogs/whatever you want to call them about the “story-behind-the story” for my backlist. This month, the Martiniere Multiverse is one of my featured universes for discussion—that is, the duology specific...

I’m not a beach person. That statement usually shocks people because so many folks are into “going to the beach.” The ocean. The sea. Tons of ink have been poured out over the ages about the wonders of the beach, … Continue reading →

Mr. Marker continues to show me just how different horses can be. Between maturing and reasonably consistent handling, he’s managed to acquire a certain amount of ground manners that he had been lacking when I first got him. Now that … Continue readi...

Welcome! This year I’m creating a set of posts/blogs/whatever you want to call them about the “story-behind-the story” for my backlist. This month, the Netwalk Sequence is my featured series. It’s the first series I published and as I went … Continue...

Another gray, gloomy day in Portland. I wander around the neighborhood, catching up on things that have changed since the last time I did these wanderings, and dropping off books in assorted Little Free Libraries (while checking to see if … Continue...

Welcome! This year I’m creating a set of posts/blogs/whatever you want to call them about the “story-behind-the story” for my backlist. This month, the Netwalk Sequence is my featured series. It’s the first series I published and as I went … Continue...

One thing that popped up on Bluesky today was a discussion of opening paragraph hooks and just how necessary they are. I’ve had thoughts about such discussions for some time now, though mine relate more to the opening of novels … Continue reading →

Welcome! This year I’m creating a set of posts/blogs/whatever you want to call them about the “story-behind-the story” for my backlist. This month, the Netwalk Sequence is my featured series. It’s the first series I published and as I went … Continue...

Marker-boy is demonstrating how well he’s doing when it comes to being loosely tied to the pickup bed. Don’t worry, I spent plenty of time ensuring he knew what being tied meant, and working with him about scary stuff. Plus … Continue reading →

I’m taking a deep breath in 2025 and starting to do things with my writing work and planning that I probably should have been doing long before now. First of all, I’m in the process of establishing a domain where … Continue reading →

Well. My current mood somewhat matches the cat's expression in this picture, and maybe a little bit of Marker's expression as well.(The cat's name is Goofy. Goofy likes to parade back and forth on the hitching rail for pets while I grain and groom Mo...

First of all, welcome to the new subscribers from the Liminal Fiction ebook list! I send this newsletter out once a month, sometime around the end of the month/first part of the next month. This newsletter is late in part because of...events, in part...

Hi everyone! The newsletter is running a bit late this time because, well...three trips for routine medical stuff over three weeks. One of those trips wasn't routine because I finally am getting my second cataract dealt with, except for the actual sc...

Yep, I got the trilogy finished and uploaded. Due to a glitch on the part of me, the publishing schedule is all out of whack. Instead of scheduling Crucible for prerelease on September 10th as originally planned, I released it on Draft2Digital and pu...

 Sometimes you just can’t keep a good character down. Mike Martiniere sandbagged me when I wrote the first Martiniere Legacy books, appearing as the five-year-old clone of Philip Martiniere in Realization. He kept nagging at me until I wrote his...